STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 180, sig. 109-2/82

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-3- IV.l.) Prerequisite for the payment with respect to the taking up of transactions is the fact that the property for which a restitution is required is used by troops of the army. 2.) If real estate is used together with units or dionstoll., which are not part of the Wehrmacht, a reasonable part must be paid and reported on. 3.) If, after 15.3.39, more favourable payment arrangements have been made between the Reichsfiskus-Heer and the Gc-Meinden (e.g. on the basis of the instruction ciner up to the l.ll.39 W.V.), then first of all:the obligations to be paid under the dios agreement must be paid and set up above them. In the event that a higher remuneration than that provided for in III.l.) and 2.) is payable, it shall also be reported. For the time being, only the allowances referred to in III.1.) and 2.) may be paid. The authorization to pay shall apply only to amounts which have become due in accordance with I.l940. In addition, as has already been said, the authorization shall apply only for the running calendar year. The extent to which the Reichsfiskus-Heer enters into contracts between the former Czechoslovak Wehrmacht and the municipalities in a different form can only be decided after 15.2.1940. VI.l.) Property claims of entrepreneurs are not payable to the municipalities. The settlement of these demands is to be carried out by the municipalities, if necessary: n.: Entry of the Reichsfiskus-Heer into the lease and amortization contracts themselves. 2.) In addition, there are not to be paid claims of construction contractors and .. who have worked on and for buildings created in the immediate state of the Czechoslovak Wehrmacht and from state funds. Applications with such claims shall be submitted to the administration of the Ereatstruppen in Bohemia and Moravia. I Not affected by this order shall be the emergency shelters (schools, factories, etc.).